Lotta’s Fountain
Lotta's fountain is a fountain at the intersection of Market Street, where Geary and Kearny Streets connect in downtown San Francisco, California. It was commissioned by actress Lotta Crabtree in 1875 as a gift to the city of San Francisco, and would serve as a significant meeting point in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Fountain
- Description: historical fountain in San Francisco
- Also known as: “Lotta Crabtree Fountain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Jewish Museum.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Museum
Photo: Allan Ferguson, CC BY 2.0.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Transamerica Pyramid
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Square-Financial District and San Francisco Transbay development.
Union Square-Financial District
Photo: Almonroth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union Square-Financial District is an area of Downtown San Francisco, made up of two neighborhoods: the bustling shopping and theater district surrounding Union Square, and the central business district where Market Street meets the bay.
San Francisco Transbay development
Neighborhood
The San Francisco Transbay development is a completed redevelopment plan for the neighborhood surrounding the Salesforce Transit Center site, South of Market near the Financial District in San Francisco, California.
Lotta’s Fountain
- Category: historic site
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.78794° or 37° 47′ 17″ northLongitude
-122.4033° or 122° 24′ 12″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)Inception
1875Open location code
849VQHQW+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 358803316OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fountainOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Spanish—“Lotta’s Fountain” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Lotta’s Fountain”
- Cebuano: “Lotta’s Fountain”
- Chinese: “洛塔喷泉”
- Chinese: “羅塔噴泉”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة لوتا”
- French: “Lotta’s Fountain”
- German: “Lotta’s Brunnen”
- German: “Lotta’s Fountain”
- Spanish: “Fuente de Lotta”
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